Medical, high-energy physicists collaborate to improve PET scans
...ider. Nevertheless, "It was a complete surprise to find out that we were thinking along absolutely parallel lines," Frisch said of the ideas that Le D presented in his talk. Scientists all over Europe, in fact, now work in concert to develop time-of-flight PET technology. Frisch, Chen, Kao and Byrum, me...Some vitamin supplements don't protect against lung cancer
... on Monday, May 21. The study, which also did not find any increased lung cancer risk from the supplement...shington School of Medicine in Seattle. We need to find out if theyre helpful or even harmful. The 77,738 men and women in the VITamins And Lifestyle (VIT...Retinol lotion reduces the fine wrinkles from natural aging of skin
...pulation aging so rapidly, it is important that we find ways of treating skin conditions of elderly people not just for purposes of vanity, but also for the healing of wounds and the reduction of ulcers, says senior author Sewon Kang, M.D., professor of dermatology at the U-M Medical School. This resea...Improving communication with families of dying patients reduces stress, anxiety and depression
...ith other family members or children, and where to find assistance. Dr. Azoulay said that families of dying patients in the ICU need information on the causes and the timing of death; the amount or level of healthcare the patient will receive; and information on the process of withholding and withdrawi...Approved medical resident hours still resulting in sleepy doctors
...s at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. To find out how the work schedule affects residents, the researchers studied 20 residents the day before and the day after they were on-call for 24 hours at the hospitals Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The objective sleepiness was assessed using a test called Mu...Eating apples and fish during pregnancy may protect against childhood asthma and allergies
... of mothers who never ate fish. The study did not find any protective effect against asthma or allergic diseases from many other foods, including vegetables, fruit juice, citrus or kiwi fruit, whole grain products, fat from dairy products or margarine or other low-fat spreads. The researchers studied 12...House dust may protect against allergic disease early in life
...develop either condition by age 3. Were trying to find why children exposed to endoxotin have lower levels of disease early in life, says researcher Melisa Celaya, M.A., of the Arizona Respiratory Center in Tucson. Celaya found that certain environmental factors increased the levels of endotoxin in a h...Study finds 'wake up and breathe' strategy allows patients to come off ventilator sooner
...ning trial (SAT) allows them to wake up, so we can find out if they are ready to proceed without sedation. If the patient is uncomfortable, we restart sedation, but a lot of patients are comfortable enough to proceed with the next step in the protocol. This second step involves allowing the patient to try...Nanomedicine opens the way for nerve cell regeneration
...geries and, quite often, it's just not possible to find a suitable nerve to use as a graft. Various synthetic nerve grafts are currently available but none work better than the autograft and can't bridge gaps larger than 4 centimeters. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed...Children with both autism and ADHD often bully, parents say
... includes bullying). But the researchers did not find that children with autism had a higher rate of bullying unless they also had ADD or ADHD. Those with both disorders showed a rate four times higher than children with just autism and with children overall. They also had a higher rate of bullying tha...Lowering body temperature could aid standard stroke treatment
...that while he and his colleagues fully expected to find that tPA is less effective at lower temperatures, their study enabled them to develop a model to explain the mechanism of how tPA gets into the clot and subsequently breaks it up. "Around 33 Celsius is what most folks would consider the target temp...Why Lincoln fell gravely ill after delivering his Gettysburg Address
...oln is said to have responded: "How interesting. I find every now and then that even unpleasant situations...thing from me. For once in my life as president, I find myself in a position to give everybody something!" Goldman said that he and his co-investigator, ...Tests show healthy humans not harmed by Taser
... you might after a tough workout. Our goal was to find out how, in the absence of alcohol, drugs or other stimulants, humans are affected physiologically." Vilke monitored the reactions of 32 healthy volunteers from the San Diego County Sheriffs Department who agreed to receive a single, five-second e...Some children are born with 'temporary deafness' and do not require cochlear implant
...mporary deafness" among young children, looking to find a way to identify those who will recover and those who will not....Asthma study shows patients have more options to control disease
...79 percent of days," said Peters. "Patients should find a therapy that that works for them and fits their desires, preferences and lifestyle." Patients on fluticasone/salmeterol once daily were symptom-free 83 percent of days and those on fluticasone/salmeterol were symptom-free for 86 percent of days. ...Low physical activity can improve fitness levels for sedentary, overweight postmenopausal women
... and should be encouraging to sedentary adults who find it difficult to find the time for 150 minutes of activity per week, let alone 60 minutes per day." (JAMA. 2007;297:2081-2...Food and drink, and what it says about us
...riculture and the Viking diet. Delegates will also find out what fossilised and skeletal remains in the Middle East reveal about social and cultural behaviour of the time. The keynote speaker at the conference will be Professor Martin Jones of The Department of Archaeology at The University of Cambridge...Pediatricians and pathologists see traumatic brain injury differently
...d traumatic brain injury. "We were surprised to find that pathologists were more in the gray zone for cases that didnt fall into these categories they werent ready to say whether they were accidental or inflicted traumatic brain injury. We think this is due in part to their different perspectives ped...AGA Institute takes leadership role in exploring obesity and its complications
...esity and its complications, we were encouraged to find a growing commitment to obesity-related research and development within the federal government, pharmaceutical and medical device industries, according to Lee M. Kaplan, MD, PhD, co-chair of the Obesity Task Force and director, Massachusetts General ......antiparkinsonian medications." "Since we did not find symptomatic effects of CoQ10 in Parkinson's disease, our study does not support the hypothesis that restoring the impaired energy metabolism of the diseased dopaminergic neurons leads to symptomatic benefits in Parkinson's disease," the authors concl...